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The Philippines won three gold medals in the first day of the Singapore Open Track and Field Championship on Saturday, August 23 but they only showed little improvement from last December’s Southeast Asian Games.
Former Asian athletics champion Marestella Torres came up with her best leap since giving birth in January, a wind-aided 6.42 meters in winning the long jump.
Eric Cray won the 400 meter hurdles in 51.60 seconds, but he won the 2013 SEA Games title in 51.29 seconds.
Christopher Ulboc won the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 9:16.51 in compared to the 2013 SEA Games of 9:01.53
The men’s 4×400 meter team of Archand Bagsit, Eduardo Alejan Jr, Julius Nierras and Isidro del Prado Jr placed second in 3:11.67 from their December time of 3:09.32, which won the event in the SEA Games.
The Asian Games is set on September 19 to October 4 but the main athletes are not close to their form late year. “It’s a bit late for them do anything that will make them run faster with one month left, the best thing is to make sure they do not get injured,” one track and field source said.
Torres was considered to be the country’s best bet to end a 20-year-old medal drought in the Asian Games but she did not make the cut for the Incheon Games. – Rappler.com
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